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Author: Ted Gup

A book for our times, sharing stories of the Great Depression of the 1930s and the generosity of a man who understood hardship. A timely and powerful work of America at its worst - and Americans at their best - woven fro ...

Author: Halina Wagowska

'These short stories are autobiographical but I am not their main sublect. Some pay homage to remarkable people (have known and loved. Some describe unusual places and events and are a kind of testimony.' But, contrary t ...

Author: Dominique Browning

My story," writes Dominique Browning, the editor in chief of "House & Garden, " "is about the way a house can express loss, and then bereavement, and then, finally, the rebuilding of a life." Around the House and in the ...

Author: Daryl Dellora

For most of his life, Michael Kirby has been a man on a tightrope. A person of strong views working in a world governed by objectivity, he has had to balance the potent, sometimes contradictory impulses of passion and du ...

Author: Ludwig Sawicki

An entertaining look into both sides of the glass counter in a gun store, CONFESSIONS OF AN EX-GUN
DEALER details the memoirs of Ludwig Sawicki who, in the 1980s owned one of the largest gun stores in the
United ...

Author: Irene Tinker

Irene Tinker's vivid memoire recaptures a pivotal moment, circa 1953, when East Africa was on the road to independence. It dramatizes both how far new nations have come since then and how burdened they remain by ghosts o ...

Author: Kat Von D.

Kat Von D's followup to her "New York Times" bestseller "High Voltage Tattoo" offers an intimate look at a pivotal year in her personal and professional life through an illustrated diary that begins in spring 2008 and en ...

Author: Judith Lee Hallock, John C. Waugh & Drake Bush

History does not simply happen. Most often it is the result of years of graduate training, assiduous research, and careful writing. Without historians we would be ignorant of our history. Yet, far too often we focus o ...

Author: Jesse Pettey

Author: Ronald A. Moline

The diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder, remains controversial, despite its inclusion as an established diagnosis in psychiatry s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ...

Author: Linda S Thompson

This story of the authors mother, as told in her own words, paints a picture of what life was like as a child in the early 1900s and beyond into her mid-80s.

Author: James Lasdun

A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate, "Give Me Everything You Have "chronicles the author's strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of a former student, a self-styled "verbal terrorist," who bega ...

Author: Robert T. Littell

Rob Littell was a freshmen at Brown when he met JFK, Jr. Although Littell came from a privileged background, it was worlds apart from the glamorous life of the son of the late President and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Li ...

Author: Samuel R Watkins

Among the plethora of books about the Civil War Company Aytch stands out for its uniquely personal view of the events as related by a most engaging writer -- a man with Twain-like talents who served as a foot soldier for ...

Author: Charles Anderson

Charles John Anderson was born in the city of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England in 1932. "From Bean Street to Cruise Line Captain and Beyond," tells of his life from birth, evacuation during world war two, school da ...

Author: Anthony Hill

On 28th June 1915, young James Martin sailed from Melbourne on the troopship Berrima - bound, ultimately, for Gallipoli. He was just fourteen years old. This is Jim's extraordinary story, the story of how a young and ent ...

Author: Jenny McCarthy

Dearest Reader,
By now you might be wondering: Jenny McCarthy has more to say?! After six "New York Times" bestsellers, I've talked about pregnancy, autism, and motherhood. I hope you've enjoyed it. I hope it's made ...

Author: Roger Yockey

Author: Nikki Mcwatters

I looked down at this man who adorned the bedroom walls of girls all over the world. His eyes were spinning, his makeup was melting and he had the goofiest grin on his handsome face. This was what the Vulture Club was ab ...

Author: Angelo R. La Pietra

From the beginning, the basic element of the story that I have wanted to write about has been the Meaning of Life. But the story I started to pen has been the story of my life. For as long as I can remember, people have ...